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Just the presence of books in the home boosts your child's chances of success in education, a major study by Nevada University [ via ] ...

Some miscellaneous things that celebrate the enjoyment of books : A boy tries to steal a library book: a librarian notices and what happen...

The Guardian features a very useful series of lists of the best children's books ever. Here's Lucy Mangan's introduction to th...

This is certainly a big step in the right direction .  As World Book and Copyright Day kicks off, The Star reports that 1,000 secondary sch...

Yeoh and Dr Sheikh Muszaphar are not selling cars or soft drinks – we need more than just a pretty face to promote reading. We need reading ...

As part of World Book Day on Thursday 4,000 parents with children aged 2-1 were surveyed to find out the UK's best children's story ...

While I'm always moaning about reading campaigns in Malaysia never really taking off in any way that neither I nor the readers of this ...

There's so much emphasis on literacy these days that I think people have forgotten or overlooked the joy of reading, ie, the simple plea...

From Daphne Lee via Facebook : Book Haven & The Dram Projects are joining forces to hold a book drive to benefit underprivileged commun...

Daphne Lee held a reading-aloud workshop for volunteers who work with young children last weekend and in today's Starmag offers very u...

I put up a post some time back about the MBBY (Malaysian Board on books for Young People) when they held their conference in July. But as D...

This from Daphne Lee: In 2009, The Dram Projects is concentrating on bringing the thrill and joy of reading to children who belong to commun...

Without the sunshine of literature children cannot grow as they should. We know that from books come knowledge and understanding, that they ...

This message from Daphne came via Facebook and I thought I'd share it since I think her work with Dram Projects is so important : Hello ...

Is the writing on the wall for reading? In a piece in the Independent by education editor Richard Garner asks whether the days of children r...

I'm delighted to hear that Daphne Lee's children's library project is finally off the ground. I went around to see it a few mont...

Stories and children belong together. A good story can stir their imagination and help them make sense of the world. It can show them that r...

Thought the children's writers (and wannabes!) among you might be interested in this (posted by Uthaya Sankar SB on an e-group) : The...

Author Shirley Lim was wonderful fun yesterday, as she launched her new book, Princess Shawl , written for women aged : ... from 9-90! Looki...

The plans of UK publishers' plans to introduce age ranging guidance for children's books is meeting a storm of protest , with author...